Despite their recent new single, "Living in a Ghost Town," and the spate of previously-unreleased material from the '70s that's now seeing the light of day, The Rolling Stones are a ways away from completing their new album.
"Don't hold your breath!" Mick Jagger told the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show when asked about how soon the new LP would arrive. "We recorded a bunch of tracks at the same time we did ["Living in a Ghost Town"] ... actually I've been finishing off the vocals and some other instruments on them, and doing some mixes on them. So I'm working on it."
For the band to feel comfortable with its new material, Jagger says they need to get together in the same room at least a "couple more" times. Concerns over the pandemic has understandably been keeping the band apart.
"We're not really gonna get together right now," he added. "But it sounds good, what we've already done — [it] sounds pretty good to me."
Just yesterday, the Stones revealed their long-lost track "Scarlet" from 1974. The song was a rare collaboration between the Stones, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Blind Faith/Traffic's Rich Grech.
"[Led Zeppelin] were just leaving, and we were booked in the next [studio] and I believe that Jimmy decided to stay," Richards recalled of the session via a press release. "We weren't actually cutting it as a track; it was basically for a demo, a demonstration, you know, just to get the feel of it, but it came out well. With a line up like that, you know, we better use it."
"Scarlet" is one of several previously-unreleased originals and rarities included on the Stones' upcoming Goats Head Soupdeluxe box set.
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